Recently, I was shopping for a hard drive at a big box store and tried to filter by capacity ...
I'm not even sure how many chickens I can fit on my current hard drive, but it's probably more than the number of persons I can fit.
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Yeah, you definitely don't want to get one that only holds 1 chicken. The extra money is worth it to hold 1 chickens.
How many chickens can the 0 TB drive store, I wonder?
No no, that’s 0 Tuberculosis.
Probably about as much as 1 person.
640 kilochickens ought to be enough for anybody.
Only if you eat fewer than 20 chickens per day.
I would hope no individual eats 20 chickens a day. Like damn that's a lot of chicken.
I wouldn't put it beyond some people to only use a single part (say only the wings) and throw away the rest.
Automation has truly ruined online shopping. These days you can order from a respectable brandname on a big company website and find out later the seller is actually nanchangshishengyuedianzishangwuyouxiangongsi and they sent you a completely different product than advertised.
I remember back in 2013 I built a PC for my wife, and in 2014 one for myself. At that point, buying something online still felt a bit odd. It was reserved for specialty items, shipping would often take at least 2 weeks, or even 6 weeks depending on where it was coming from. I was no stranger to purchasing online, but brick-and-mortar stores with real stock still existed and could get me what I purchased much more quickly.
I remember being so impressed with Newegg's website. It made it so easy to build a computer and make sure everything was compatible. It was really easy to compare different options. The filter system was intuitive and comprehensive. I remember thinking "wow this is a perfect shopping experience. The future has arrived".
I went to build my next PC in 2019, and dear Satan was it so much worse. I had heard about Newegg getting bought out by a larger company in 2016, and it showed. They opened it up to 3rd party sellers. The filters got clogged with garbage and don't seem to work properly anymore. The sort function became a joke. The UI got rearranged to be less intuitive. I think they purposefylly wanted to make a worse shopping experience to make people frustrated, to get them to give up on looking for deals and pay a bit extra just to be done with it. I ended up having to go to a 3rd party website (PCPartPicker) to figure out what I needed and where to get it. And some of those parts I had to order on eBay (some even from Newegg's eBay account which is just.... Why are we doing this?), some on Amazon or Best Buy. And it's only gotten worse since.
This same experience has happened everywhere. Just this morning my wife was checking out Culture Hustle to see if they have any interesting new paints and commented on how much worse the website was now than when we last used it a few years ago.
This may make me sound like an old curmudgeon yelling at clouds, but I think the Internet peaked a while ago. There are arguments over exactly when, but sometime between 2008-2016. I remember in 2012 in talking to my fellow students about how Google search results were getting worse.
It's weird how Amazon kind of pushed every online store into becoming eBay (without the bidding... Do people still use eBay for auctions?)
The bidding is actually the main reason I never once used eBay but do use regular online store like Amazon.
Every electronic I own is basically from an eBay auction. It's a great place to buy from, their buyer protection is borderline too good... not such a great place to sell on. Although, what are you going to do, go to their other big competitors?..
So you use the actual auctions, and not just "buy it now"?
I remember back in the day when all they had were auctions, it was novel and cool. Then they added "buy it now" and the site slowly turned into Amazon.
95% of the time I do the auctions. Only do buyitnow if no other options, which isn't super common. I have got Ipads for 30-50 that still have a good battery even after using them for a couple years. A $50 laptop that does anything you would normally want a laptop to do. 8 kindles for $45 of which I sold 4 of them to my aunt for $45 to sell at a flea market and I kept and gave away the other four. 3 gallons of Legos for like $10... the list just keeps going.
My wife ordered a bunch of clothes off Amazon for the kids, they came out of the package still in their vacuum packed Chinese shipping bag.
The only saving grace is If they don't fit they're easily returnable. We probably could have ordered them from Alibaba for pennies on the dollar, But waited 6 weeks and assumed all the risk of a nearly impossible return.
Yeah, I remember a long time ago thinking Linkedin was useful and had some good articles. Now its gross.
Just today I was trying to look for something at homedepot and not only were the filters exactly like that, but they were also additive. So if I selected both "1 chicken" and "1 chickens" to cover both spellings, it would say 0 results because no product matches both at the same time.
That's multiplicative, no? Conjunctive rather than disjunctive.
It sounds like it's set up as an AND search, rather than the OR that any normal person would expect here.
Yeah, that's what I mean with conjunctive instead of disjunctive.
This shit infuriates me. It is trivial to add an option for "and/or" when you have multiple checkboxes.
You don't even really need an option for fields that are single value and compared by equality. Two distinct values for that only ever make sense as an OR filter.
I haven't had this problem that I can recall with online shopping, but I have definitely encountered it when searching Jira tickets.
Actually, some of my most successful online shopping (or at least filtering) has been at Home Depot. They indicate where items are in their store very specifically (and usually accurately) and most of them even have Google Maps of the inside of their store. Because I can precisely locate something before I go there, I know exactly where to go when I do and can be in and out very quickly. It's wonderful.
The screenshot is from Walmart. Their accuracy is much more questionable. I didn't see a single chicken last time I visited. Joking aside, the website has indicated that an item was in stock in an aisle that didn't even exist (I think it was looking at another store despite me confirming multiple times which one I had set).
In Jira that counts as a feature because Jira is explicitly designed to be as painful as possible to work with.
Sad but true.
Surprised nobody has linked this one yet:
Did it ever actually get made? I remember this.
Coming out any minute now: https://landing.coolermaster.com/kfconsole/
^/s^
I'd unironically buy that.
"Hm... 1 chicken or 1 chickens... 🤔"
Hold up. There are six 1 chickens? I gotta see what a 1 chickens capacity drive looks like.
1 Chicken is measured by the cut size. The smallest currently is measured in bites. Here is a 3lb partition...
Cubes?! Well I'll be darn, we got solid-state chicken now.
Wut.
Guaranteed source of iodine? Mmmm
strictly speaking, if you mix salt in some oil, you have an essential oil.
I think a cube is equivalent to a byte
No, a cube is clearly slang for a qubit or quantum bit so we are dealing with storage for a quantum computer.
Now chicken has ribs? Did they grow up in 3 mile Island?
The six 1 chickens are for RAID
Redundant Avians In Drive?
😯
They can play RAID SHADOW LEGENDS?
The filters are different today and only one result shows up, but apparently this is a 1 chickens drive: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Universal-500G-USB3-0-External-Hard-Disc-HDD-State-Drive-Notebook-Desktop-for-Flash-Deals-Women-Men-New-Blue/9815853058
If you're curious enough to reproduce the results yourself, obviously it's Walmart (I'm not proud, but they're the only store within an hour of my small town that carries essentially any electronics at all). I got the results searching for "20tb external drive" (not carried, it turns out) and trying to filter by capacity and in-store, but I imagine you could perform a less specific search and perhaps get even more amusing filters.
Everytime an item gets a search optimized name, an angel gets its One Size Fits All Wing Wings Bird Men Women White Feathers All Ages New.
What I love is they include "state" in there. Is not a solid state drive, but it does have some sort of unspecified status at times, so it's a state drive.
Also
Personally, I measure capacity in Tera-dactyls.
Since dactyl mean finger, which can also be translated as a digit, it kinda works. 🤔
It's also a quantity of alcohol.
Nice.
I would filter by 1 chicken just to see what comes up
Probably 1 chicken
Weirdly, it was just a hard drive. I took this screenshot 1-2 months ago and the filter options aren't quite the same today, but "1 chickens" still shows up as option. If I select it, I get: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Universal-500G-USB3-0-External-Hard-Disc-HDD-State-Drive-Notebook-Desktop-for-Flash-Deals-Women-Men-New-Blue/9815853058
How many 0 TB drives do i need to store this image?
∞
log 0
I think I understood logarithms to some extent when I was in college ... 25 years ago ... but even if I still remember how they work, my brain's not getting there tonight.
log 0 goes to -infinity, so the operation is illegal.
Well, thank you for explaining, but I guess now you have to be placed under arrest.
So it goes.
Is this a Vonnegut reference?
If so, I can't respond positively enough.
Undefined
NaN
SIGILL
segmentation fault at 0x87ac4608
core dumped
So about saving that core dump... :)
hehe :)
btw i went through your post history and you seem cool and based :)
Thanks! ;-)
1 chickens, please!
Do you have enough hard drive for it?
Sadly, yes.
I'm gonna upgrade to the 0 TB hard drive pretty soon so everything stops using up so much storage
Sigh. How many times do I have to keep telling people.. 0TB ≠ 0 TiB. One is a marketing gimmick that makes it look like you're getting more capacity than is actually available. You think you're getting 0TB when you're actually only getting 0TiB.
You do get 0 TB though not just 0 TiB. It's also a way better and proper way of measuring and is the ISO standard.
0 TB means 0 terabyte. Tera means trillion and with 0 terabytes you do get 0 trillion bytes (0e+12)
yeah especially since these days software seems to expand to fill the available volume, just like a hot gas.
It can be ∞ TB if you inverse it by instead uploading to cloud 😏🤏🏻
are you saying all I need to do is reverse the polarity?
I absolutely despise how online retailers have always allowed sellers to use the most nonsensical classifications for certain item categories, to the point most categories' filters are fucking useless
"User experience? Lol fuck that, browse endlessly you fucking peon!"
Everyone has their own way of doing things. In order to integrate them, you have to create your own way of doing things. Later, other people have to integrate your new schema with their own. It's just the nature of working with many different companies
Okay, but what company measures hard drives in chickens?
Impossible to say how the screenshot came about. At some point, the semantics of someone's data was misinterpreted. Something was called a hard drive when it isn't, something was treated as a capacity when it isn't
Just as a matter of interest, at the time of the screenshot I opened one of the "chickens" results and combed the page but failed to find any instance of the word (singular or otherwise). Today and yesterday, several people have asked me for the "chickens" results, which are sadly fewer now; however, one still exists within the constraints of the filters I applied. I still can find no instance of the word on the product page.
I'm sure the word "chicken" appears somewhere in the metadata, but it's still a failure of the system and the UX.
edit: s/and/any/
One chicken is equal to 1,024 Bacockobytes of data (more commonly known as simply a 'bacock')
Mine say 256 ertuherrrrs. Wut dat?
Sounds like you need to reformat and install KFC Linux - Kernel Saunders Edition.
It's for the Chicken PDF, silly!
Hmm, that loads a blank page for me and searching online for "chicken PDF" returns a lot of unrelated stuff.
Still, I've heard a PDF can be the size of Britain or something like that. It makes sense that you could only fit a single one (or perhaps single ones) on your drive.
This is clearly more than one chicken.
My knowledge of grammar is insufficient to determine whether it is more than one chickens.
Try a different store, they probably have a 1 PetaPerson drive.
A PetaPerson would hold 0 chickens.
Chickens are a bad file system to use anyway, they can get plucked too easily and fail.
I wouldn't be surprised to see chickenfs next time I format a drive. It would probably pair well with butterfs.
I hear butterfs even runs on a potato.
Chickens don't run on potatoes though, so I'd avoid that if you're wanting to run chickens and butterfs on the same system.
I don't know why but chickenfs sounds like a new trend on pornhub.
You must be thinking of step-chickenfs.
"Can you help me with my homework..."
Yo, give me the hard drive that fits another bard drive. I'll load a hard drive onto the hard drive in my hard drive so I can load a hard drive on it.
Jo dawg
I heard you like hard drives ...
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How much was the nothing drive?
Gluten free, TB free
You know, I didn't check. Maybe I should pick up a Nothing phone and try again.
Which language has a word/abbreviation that can translate as either chicken or something to do with data storage?
I don't understand your question. You don't use chickens as a measurement of file size?
Next you'll tell me you don't describe a gigachicken as a person!
edit: I would be remiss if I didn't mention Egg, Inc.
There's a huge difference between chicken^4 vs chickens^4. Approximately (✓chick/4)π
Obviously, one is chicken^4 and one is chicken * s^4
Only if plucked.
Plato in shambles
Maybe after a bunch of translations you could get there
Sizes:
Strangely (to me), most of the comments I've seen have been focused on the chickens, which are pretty funny; however, I don't think I've seen anyone comment on the "1 person," which - to me - is more concerning. Though if "Dennis" is a person (rather than a menace), perhaps that mitigates my concerns.
I was actually citing Homestar Runner with Dennis.
"Ye find yeself in yon dungeon. Ye see a FLASK. Obvious exits are NORTH, SOUTH, and DENNIS."
Also, Extra Extra Medium.
Ah, I suppose I should burninate my previous response.
im getting the new WD Black 1 chicken drive. the RD/RW speeds blow SSD's out of the water.
If you've had it for long enough you start to find Easter eggs in the game
Only if you have a rooaster drive somewhere nearby.
Women ovulate whether or not there is a man around. If women could choose to not have menstrual cycles by not having intercourse with men I think we would have far more lesbians in this world haha
Huh, that should've been obvious, but here we are.
Meh, easier for me to remember because I have hens out back and more eggs than I know what to do with.. give them away constantly and they still pile up
I've been considering getting chickens, but haven't had time to properly set things up, any chance I could become your neighbor?
You can just take my place and I'll go live out back with the chickens. The 4 older ones go spend half their day in the wooded area behind, I'm sure I could set up a fort back there and have an official forest chicken base.
From personal experience, you will only be able to fit one chicken into your network, but you will end up with at least two, possibly more.
If you refuse to buy said chickens, one or more will arrive on their own
So, you might as well just default to three and hope that's the end of it.
The good news is that chickens very much enjoy the warmth of a humming PC, and will gladly lay eggs there.
That last part is not a joke.
Is chicken-networking related to duck-networking as described in The Story about Ping?
There's some overlap there for sure.
Problem is that the ducks are quackers, and the chickens are giant peckers, along with being some serious mothercluckers when you take the eggs off of the pc.
Hello I would like to deposit five chickens worth of information
Do you plan to just cluck into a microphone?
Can we see the six search results for chickens?
Unfortunately, I took that screenshot a while ago; if I do the same search again, I get only one "1 chickens" result, which I've linked elsewhere in the thread. It's just a normal external drive, as far as I can tell, so I have no idea how "chickens" got involved.
The search was originally done on Walmart.com (I'm not proud but there aren't a lot of retail options around my small town). All I did was search for "20tb external drive," filter for "in store," then open the "capacity" filter, which is what's shown above. I've consistently gotten weird results so, unless it's something specific to my local store, you probably will as well. If you do this, I'll be curious of your findings.
Fae be it from me to Walmart shame. I have bought and will buy hardware from worse. ;) thanks for the reply
My pleasure, and I can relate to the first part. Hope you have a great weekend!
edit: Also, your username reminds me of this song, which comes highly recommended by my five-year-old.
That was a fantastic ride
The first time I showed it to my kid, they said "Daddy, what is reality?"
I still don't know how to answer, especially in a way that makes sense of the video.
Kid, that is exactly what question that video was asking, and it doesn't know the answer either.
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of
scienceexplaining things to 5-year-olds?They don't come in furlongs anymore?
https://youtu.be/1HPVQ4FpVlY
1 chickens
1 Toribyte
I'll take 2 1 chickens plz.
https://diskprices.com/ is helpful
Much appreciated! I ended up ordering from Newegg, which had much more sensible filters. I had originally purchased what I wanted from Amazon, but the first one I got, ordered refurbished, had clearly been shucked and replaced with a 160GB drive from (IIRC) 2008 and the second one, ordered new, started audibly clicking one day into use.
For some reason (described by Amazon customer support as a "server glitch") Amazon had a really tough time with the return of both of them. This drive is meant to back up a RAID attached to my file server, so I didn't want to continue tempting fate by continuing to leave the server un-backed-up, which is why I was trying to find a place I could pick up one approximately the same day. I wasn't able to find such a place, so I went with Newegg because it seemed like a bad idea to keep trying Amazon.
Wow, thanks for this
That's what you need to sacrifice to the demon lord's of the Bit to get a drive
you see the size of that chicken?
Chicken attack!
well if we're talking poultry
what a gift from the universe.
(mostly commenting so that I find this again in the future :-)
sing it to your family. it's lovely
Alright, let's do some math.
According to a quick search, chicken wire weighs about 0.07537 lbs/ft^2 (sorry for using yeehaw units). When building a chicken run, you need about 10 ft^2 of ground area per chicken, which will use around 50 ft^2 of chicken wire, give or take. This comes to 3.7685 lbs of chicken wire.
Another quick search shows the average hard drive is about 1.38 lbs, which means the average hard drive has a capacity of only 0.366 chickens. Which makes the 1 chicken capacity drives quite competitive, really.
Just be careful, it might weigh your case down quite a bit.
Well, you've sold me on it. I'll go buy the one chicken drive now.
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Don't look in the filters for pots.
any results? emoji picker confused by numbers. 🐩 101